Summing up Apple’s event, the new iPad has:

• A Retina display (2048 x 1536)
• Cameras like the ones in the iPhone 4S (including 1080p video)
• Optional LTE (and worldwide 3G as back-up)
• Voice dictation
• Serious technical grunt to push all those high-res graphics
• The same price tag
• The same battery life

Apple has also:

• Released a new 1080p Apple TV for the same price as the old model
• Updated its iPad apps for the Retina display
• Released iPhoto for iPad, which looks really lovely
• Kept the iPad 2 for a low-end model

So, here’s what I predict idiots are going to mostly write about:

• The name (just ‘iPad’, with no version number)
• The slight increase in weight and thickness
• The lack of additional storage
• The LTE fragmentation
• The lack of a price drop
• The lack of a smaller model
• Features in one or two Android tablets that no-one really gives a crap about

If you’re in the idiot camp, please go and watch this before spewing your word vomit all over the internet. Thanks.

Note: I’m not saying here that the new iPad is perfect. I would have liked to have seen more storage, and I think until the iPad 2 vanishes, the new naming convention has the potential to confuse customers. However, the tech press has a habit of banging on about small negatives when it comes to Apple, sidelining the big positives. Personally, I think everyone else in the industry now has a massive challenge to compete with Apple’s revised iPad.